Microsoft outlook notification

Question

I am using .NET 2.0/3.5

Brief:

I am planing to develop an application which will send a SMS to the user mobile if he get any mail to his outlook.

Description:

I am working for a organization which has one dedicated system for an employee and they have outlook configured in their system. What I want that whenever a mail comes to their outlook they will receive a SMS on their mobile.

Now, I have SMS service with me and I need to know how can I get the notification that email is arrived to user mailbox.

Is it possible to get such type of notification from Outlook to .NET?

Answer 1

May be the most complex part of your solution is sending SMS message from Outlook. In general, there are two ways to send SMS messages from a computer / PC to a mobile phone:

1. Connect a mobile phone or GSM/GPRS modem to a computer / PC. Then use the computer / PC and AT commands to instruct the mobile phone or GSM/GPRS modem to send SMS messages.
2. Connect the computer / PC to the SMS center (SMSC) or SMS gateway of a wireless carrier or SMS service provider. Then send SMS messages using a protocol / interface supported by the SMSC or SMS gateway.

Regarding first ways here you can find a lot of information: http://www.developershome.com/sms/

But this is not seems to be the right way.

Regarding second way, you can find in the first answer a lot of providers.

On my opinion, the best way for have a full programming control is using some existed provider's API or component for this issue. You can find it a lot in the internet, if you want. You also can find a usefull using Office 2010 Mobile Service. Details you can find here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff606754.aspx